Now that the lid is taken off this can of worms in the United States I think we can assume it is the same or worse here in Canada. What we know about is probably only the part of the iceberg that's above water. I imagine that a lot of the unaccounted for money in Canada has been spent on similar influence influenced buying. Sadly, PP is no Trump and will probably never find out the truth.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/politico-ny-times-propped-millions-dollars-us-government
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........